Following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Kevin Heaslip, director for the Center for Transportation Research, spoke with NBC News’ Joe Fryer about why the bridge collapsed and how the cargo ship brought down the massive structure. Watch the video here
In February of 2022, as the country was still recovering from the supply chain shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Toks Omishakin as the state’s fourth Secretary of Transportation. That May, Omishakin helped strike down a decades-old plan to widen the 710 Freeway, one of the country’s busiest freight corridors—and defended […]
Kevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to develop an integrated, compact drive inverter and motor for electric vehicles that would reduce both the size and cost of electric drive trains. Bai’s proposed […]
Alberta wants EV owners to pull their own weight when it comes to paying for road maintenance – but battery-electric passenger vehicles, while considerably heavier than their gas-powered counterparts, are far from the heaviest vehicles on the road, experts said. “For pavement, the biggest cause of damage is large transport trucks,” Kevin Heaslip, director of […]
TTAP hosted the 2024 meeting of the National Local and Tribal Technical Assistance Program Association (NLTAPA) Southeast Region from April 8th through the 11th in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This annual meeting brought together staff members from the region’s nine LTAP centers (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Tennessee) to share […]
